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Web Browsers And Packages

Release: 2008-05-11
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The Web Content Object Model (WCOM)

A new baseline and level of practical content support of webpages, websites and web applications for Internet-enabled UserAgents such as web browsers.

Core Level:

  • HTTP and HTTPS 1.1;
  • UTF-8 or higher Character Set;
  • Low Level Storage: Cookies;
  • HTML 5 'Subset' for UserAgents;
  • JPEG Images;
  • PNG Images with native Alpha Transparency support;
  • Some Visual, Interactive and Paged CSS 2.1 including:
    • Proper !important keyword;
    • Full transparent value;
    • Attribute selectors;
    • Child selector;
    • Full :hover selector;
    • :first-child selector;
    • Proper overflow property;
    • min-width, max-width, min-height, max-height properties;
  • ECMAScript Edition 3 with JavaScript 1.4 or higher or similar;
  • General DOM 1 HTML and some DOM 5 HTML including
    • getElementById;
    • innerHTML;
  • General Event Object Model;
  • The style object.

Such as : Trident V (5) and higher based (Internet Explorer 7 and higher),
Mozilla Gecko 1.7 and higher based (Mozilla Firefox, Flock, SeaMonkey, Galean, Ephiphany, K-Melean),
Apple Webkit 419 and higher based (Safari 2 and higher, Omniweb 5.5 and higher, iCab 4 and higher, Shira 2.2),
Presto 1 and higher based (Opera 7 and higher),
KHTML 3.3.2 and higher based (Konqueror 3.3.2 and higher.

Layout Level:

  • Most of Visual and Interactive CSS 2.1 including:
    • content (with counters);
    • Full List Types;
    • CSS Tables;
  • CSS 3 Begins With, Ends With and Contains Substring Attribute Selectors;
  • Some form of box-sizing.

Such as: (Possibly Trident VI (6) and higher based (Internet Explorer 8 and higher),)
Mozilla Gecko 1.8 and higher based (Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher, Flock, SeaMonkey, Galean, Ephiphany, K-Melean, Camino),
Apple Webkit 525 and higher based (Safari 3.1 and higher),
Presto 3 and higher based (Opera 9 and higher),
KHTML 3.4 and higher based (Konqueror 3.4 and higher).

Browsers

Microsoft Trident based: Internet Explorer, WebbIE, AOL for Windows, BT Yahoo! .

Mozilla Gecko based: Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, Epiphany, Galeon, K-Meleon, Flock, AOL 8+ for Mac .

Apple Webkit based: Safari, iCab 4+, OmniWeb 5.5+, Shira, some mobile phone browsers .

Presto based: Opera, recent Nokia Phone Browsers .

KHTML based: Konqueror.

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